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Community Radio and Civil Rights: views from a socialist-feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial perspective

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Patricia Kullberg, Bill Resnick, Denise Morris, Frann Michel, Laurie Mercier, Joe Clement, Jan Haaken, Larry Bowlden, Jon Nelson, OldMoleVarietyHour

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Views, Reviews, and Interviews from a socialist-feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial point of view.

Every Monday from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

A program of social and political commentary from a socialist-feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial point of view.

The Old Mole burrows down to the roots of the great issues of our time – the struggles of ordinary people for democratic and sustainable ways of life. The Mole goes where corporate media fear to tread, supporting grassroots challenges to top-down authority and giving voice to movements that shake the foundations of an unjust society. The Moles' perspective is democratic, anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-colonial and anti-racist. We count Karl Marx as a friend but are open to other voices from the left. The show includes analyses of global politics and economics, local grassroots activism, segments on the Left & the Law, and reviews of films, books, music, and theater.

Contributors include: Julian Ankney, Larry Bowlden, Joe Clement, Norm Diamond, Kevin Foster, Jan Haaken, Desiree Hellegers, Patricia Kullberg, Luisa Martinez, Laurie Mercier, Frann Michel, Denise Morris, Bill Resnick, Victoria Saucedo, Sophie Smith, Mike Snedecker, Roben White, Matt Witt

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Our theme song is the traditional "Mole in the Ground," sometimes performed by Clayton & Ernie, sometimes by Joe Clement, and sometimes blended with other versions, like the one by dj/rupture, sung by Sindhu Zagoren on the album Special Gunpowder, or Blind Boy Paxton

Our graphic lettering is by Charlie Ertola. Host portraits by Clayton Morgareidge.

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Old Mole Variety Hour on 01/09/12

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris host and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Rob Ritchie of Fair Vote Monday, starting out with Iowa's recent straw vote, how flawed it was as a democratic exercise, and how it would have been more meaningful if it had been done under a "ranked choic... Read more

More Democratic Voting

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2012 at 12:00am

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How fair and democratic are "winner-take-all" elections? Rob Ritchie is the director of Fair Vote, and in this conversation he and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick discuss how most elections work against third-party candidates and how elections could be get more voices into... Read more

Equal Opportunity...to do what?

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2012 at 12:00am

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Mainstream gay organizations and the liberal media have spent millions campaigning for the end to "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the policy that prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the US military. Is that where the GLBT movement should be spending its money? D... Read more

Why is Brad Manning Where He Is?

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2012 at 12:00am

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Brad Manning, a young, gay soldier imprisoned and accused of giving classified information to Wikileaks, has been abandoned by the mainstream GLBT movement. Why? Is it because he shows exactly why the military is not a place gays should be trying to get equal access t... Read more

Will Israel Attack Iran?

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2012 at 12:00am

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Israel wants a war, but not with Iran, for that would lead to disaster. It would rather fight the Palestinians in Gaza -- again -- but Hamas is depriving the Israelis of good reasons. Uri Avnery explains how Hamas has stolen a war in this blog post, read here by the ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2012 at 12:00am

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Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Mole which focuses on how to make elections more democratic, the campaign for gays in the military, and Israel's plans for war. Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ... Read more

Book Mole: The Steal, a cultural history of shop-lifting

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2012 at 12:00am

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Iven Hale reviews Rachel Schteir's "The Steal: a cultural history of shop-lifting". Schteir considers theivery across the ages, but especially in the modern era and in terms of sureptitiously lifting goods from stores and vendors. Iven remarks on the social forces that ... Read more

The Music and Future of Occupy

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2012 at 12:00am

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Clayton Morgareidge talks with our radical musicologist, Brad Duncan, about the music and future of Occupy. As the cold months drive people indoors, the music helps keep the movement alive, but also as Brad points out by the end the re-surgence in small-scale printing a... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour January 2nd

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2012 at 12:00am

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Joe Clement hosts today's Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Al Weinrub about democratic, locally produced energy Clayton Morgareidge and radical musicologist Brad Duncan talk about the music of Occupy. Iven Hale reviews "The Steal: a cultural... Read more

Movie Moles: Take Shelter

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2012 at 12:00am

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Joe Clement and Frann Michel review the apocalyptic psycho-thriller Take Shelter, staring Michael Shannon as a blue-collared man in rural Ohio who becomes deeply disturbed by terrifying dreams involving mega-storms, attacks by dogs and neighbors, and even faceless intru... Read more